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    • Good weekend for Green Party

      THERE WAS a spring in the step of Green Party Ministers and supporters when they met for their annual conference in Dundalk at the weekend. Even a downturn in the economy could not disguise their quiet relief at the voluntary departure of Bertie Ahern as Taoiseach. A great political weight had lifted and they were free to celebrate their participation in Government and their plans for the future. p

    • Wages and inflation

      GOVERNMENT, EMPLOYERS and unions are facing a tough challenge in forthcoming talks on a new national pay agreement. For the economic backdrop to their negotiations will make consensus difficult to achieve. As the current agreement expires after 27 months, workers have on average received no real increase in pay over the lifetime of the accord. Nominal wage gains have been eroded by inflation which has accelerated again despite expectations that it would weaken in 2008. The annual rate of consumer price inflation rose to 5 per cent in March, from 4.3 per cent in January. p
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    • Is the growth of air travel sustainable?

      HEADTOHEAD: Garry Cullen says air travel remains crucial to global growth and can become much more friendly to the environment while Oisín Coghlan says much of the pleading from the airline industry is based on myth, when they say it is responsible for only 2 per cent of pollution. p

    • Online: join the debate at ireland.com/head2head

      HEADTOHEAD: Last week, John Carr and John Murray debated the question: Is denominational education suitable for 21st-century Ireland? Here is an edited selection of your comments. p

    • A new leaf for the Greens?

      ANALYSIS: THE GREEN Party has learned invaluable lessons lately on how events shape political fortunes. Just before 8.50pm at the party conference on Saturday, party leader John Gormley reached the section of his speech that addressed human rights and international issues, writes Harry McGee .
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    • Pint and a puff for Cowen make for a healthy society

      SO NOW coffee is good for you. I suppose we should be glad. But instead of being glad some of us are wondering if nutritionists and fitness experts should join economists, auctioneers and journalists in the professions' hall of shame. Yes, things are getting quite snug in here, but we can probably find some room for the lifestyle dictators, writes Anne Marie Hourihane . p

    • US focusing on tool of war to the exclusion of its goal

      THE US has, according to US president George W Bush, "renewed and revived the prospect of success" in Iraq. His professional, if loyal, Iraq commander, Gen David Petraeus, was more sanguine, admitting that "we haven't turned any corners, we haven't seen any lights at the end of the tunnel", writes Tony Kinsella . p

    • A wealthy beggar and the five-year-old boy who walked to safety under water

      IRISH TIMES ODDITIES: A WEALTHY BEGGAR The Genoa police have arrested a 68-year-old beggar. He had plied his profession for the last 40 years, his favourite point of vantage being the quays, where large liners land their passengers, writes Allen Foster . p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      FRANK McNALLY, the resident Diarist, has called John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World "one of the all-time great book titles" and described Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat as "a candidate for catchiest book title of all time". His claims sent me searching for other candidates - and their origins. (Is there a technical term for the study of book titles?) p
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